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London Street Photography - Edging Towards Normality
So the vaccines are having the desired effect and slowly, oh so slowly, the world is tentatively moving back to the new normal.
We decided it was time to get out there and see how it’s doing and headed to That London to do some street photography…and it was a little weird.
Life has resolutely returned to the streets, but inside, in galleries and shops, things are still very sparse and quiet. It gives a different mood to the place, with life being lived on the street rather than hidden away. We liked it a lot.
Here’s a selection from both our sets, mainly taken around Soho, Shoreditch and The South Bank.
Notting Hill
When we set off for a trip to the Tate Modern, we didn’t actually realise that the bank holiday weekend of the 28th of august was the time when London was hosting the craziest and largest street party around. We noticed lots of people dressed in feathers and it slowly dawned on us that we needed to head over to Notting Hill to see what it was all about.
Em had her huge canon camera and I was travelling light with my tiny Ricoh GRII street camera.
I think we managed to capture the mood of the event, although there are no pictures of the terrifying crush we got caught in - we actually feared for our lives; not from any threat of violence, but from the sheer mass of people who at one point stared to panic and push. It was an experience to say the least. Don’t let this put you off going though - it is a truly amazing event but next time we go, we will avoid the mayhem on the bank holiday Monday and perhaps not move into the streams of people.
The following is a sample of pictures from both cameras from that day.
